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RB 82/00087 Northern Adelaide Plains gas storage study, Port Gawler area.
Tertiary palaeochannel containing North Maslins Sands is incised in Cambrian - Precambrian bedrock, capped by clays and lignite. Investigations by gravity and seismic surveys and rotary drilling, have reduced the potential of the channel as an...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1983
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RB 83/00034 Underground gasification of inaccessible Leigh Creek coal measures - A preliminary evaluation of the geological structure of Telford Basin.
The Telford Basin is an asymmetrically shaped synclinal basin containing sediments of upper Triassic-Jurassic age, which cover a 25 square km area. Sub-bituminous coal occurs in three major series of seams which are informally termed the Leigh Creek...-
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Published: 01 Mar 1983
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RB 87/00134 Northern Adelaide Plains underground gas storage - 1987 gravity survey.
598 new stations were established in 1987 gravity survey. It revealed 5 gravity anomalies with potential for underground storage targets. Seismic reflection is recommended over 4 of these areas to establish correlation between the gravity method and...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1987
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RB 78/00013 Northern Adelaide Plains gas storage study. Barabba gravity low.
The Barabba Gravity Low in the Northern Adelaide Plains has been interpreted as a southerly dipping trough-like depression in Precambrian bedrock, infilled with Tertiary and covered by a blanket of Quaternary sediments. All margins of this feature are...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 79/00146 Exploration for underground gas storage targets in South Australia.
Geophysical and geological surveys and drilling in the Northern Adelaide Plains of South Australia have located a Tertiary palaeochannel incised within Proterozoic bedrock. Present data indicate favourable reservoir and seal conditions for the...-
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RB 78/00058 Cost and availability of energy for electric vehicles in South Australia.
The electric vehicle option is compared to other transport options in the context of energy policy. Sufficient electrical energy is available to meet future demand for electric vehicles. The cost of generating the increased supply and the tariffs...-
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Published: 29 May 1978
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RB 78/00108 Report on field test of soil gas sampling equipment - Cooper Basin geochemical prospecting for hydrocarbons.
Hydrocarbons in soil - gas, extracted from auger holes were caught in traps immersed in liquid nitrogen and later analysed by gas chromatography. Results are sufficiently encouraging to warrant further work.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1978
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RB 81/00065 Gravity survey of the St Kilda saltfields.
Detailed gravity survey indicates a Tertiary palaeochannel, 1 km wide, incised into Cambrian - Precambrian bedrock. This depression is difficult to correlate with bedrock depressions in the Port Gawler area. The palaeochannel may be of interest for...-
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Published: 01 Feb 1981
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RB 79/00112 Forecasts for gas supplies from the Cooper Basin of South Australia.
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 77/00016 Soil hydrocarbon geochemistry. A potential exploration tool, in the Cooper Basin. 25th International Geological Congress, Sydney, 1976.
The ethane, propane, butanes, and pentanes concentrations of shallow soil samples collected in 1975 from 1070 sites over the Permian Cooper Basin have been analysed. The samples were taken at a spacing of 300m along two regional traverses; on a widely...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1977
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RB 79/00062 Investigation of a possible site for underground gas storage in the Northern Adelaide Plains.
Exploration for a suitable underground gas storage target in the Northern Adelaide Plains was initiated in 1964. Prior to the present investigation, four other areas have been examined and rejected as target areas, mainly due to the shallow depth of...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1979
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RB 80/00098 Foundation geology of the Northern Power Station.
The Northern Power Station, presently under construction, is the third power station to be built at Port Augusta. Two previous stations (Playford A and B) were constructed during the 1950s, although investigations into the feasibility of using the...-
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Published: 01 Sep 1980
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RB 79/00088 Wilkinson 1. Well completion report.
Wilkinson 1 stratigraphic well was drilled by the SA Department of Mines and Energy in mid-1978, about 250 km south-west of Coober Pedy, in the Tallaringa Trough. Here a thick section of Cambrian claystones, limestones and evaporites, at least 594 m...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1979
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RB 80/00076 South Eastern Freeway. Glen Osmond to Crafers re-alignment. Feasibility study of Wylie Ridge tunnel.
A geological mapping and drilling programme has shown that the making of a tunnel through Wylie Ridge is geologically feasible. The route will pass through folded quartzite and siltstone, and the rock mass possesses various discontinuities which will...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1980
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RB 90/00080 Enstat. South Australian energy statistics.
This statistical report for 1988/89 is intended to provide basic information for monitoring changes in the energy sector. Statistics include energy sales, prices, flows, intensity and per capita use, mining, trade and royalties, use of insulation and...-
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Published: 01 Dec 1990
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RB 91/00096 Probabilistic method for estimating gas reserves.
The Departments method for estimating and reporting gas reserves has been revised to include estimates of tight gas as well as providing more accurate estimates of conventionally recoverable gas reserves. This has included a new method for...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1991
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RB 94/00044 Soil air carbon dioxide and oxygen as a guide to oxidising sulphide concealed beneath shallow cover. Soil air CO2/O2 project: review report 1.
A joint project between Dr I.G. Watmuff (consultant) and the Department of Mines and Energy, South Australia, to appraise the soil air CO2/O2 technique as a guide to concealed oxidising sulphides, has been completed. Testing was conducted over known...-
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Published: 01 Oct 1994
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RB 96/00014 Clayton water supply - Aquifer storage and recovery investigation.
Aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) is being developed as a solution to provide an emergency town water supply in a location where blue- green algae make River Murray water unfit for domestic use during summer. Algae-free river water will be injected...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1998
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RB 97/00034 Economics of gas gathering and processing in the Cooper Basin.
The Petroleum Division of Mines and Energy South Australia (MESA) engaged GPA Engineering to provide cost estimates to feasibility study level for processing and transporting products from new gas discoveries in the Cooper Basin, both on a stand-alone...-
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Published: 01 Jul 1997
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RB 97/00047 Briefing on the potential for ASR at the MFP, The Levels, site.
Potential for ASR at the untested The Levels site is identified in up to 3 Quaternary and 2 Tertiary aquifers, depending on the validity of interpreted aquifer properties as interpolated from nearby tested and operating ASR sites. A site-specific...-
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Published: 01 Aug 1997